R help - Dec 2010 - Delete observations with a frequency < x

Hi,

I have two columns with data (both identifiers - it's an affiliation list)
and I would like to delete the rows in which the observations in the second
column have a frequency < 5 in the entire second column. Example:

1     a
1     b
1     c
2     a
2     b
2     d

Let's say, I would like to delete the rows in which the observation in the
second column has a frequency < 2 in the entire second column. This would
result in:

1     a
1     b
2     a
2     b

How can I do this? Thanks in advance!

Mathijs
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Suppose this is your data frame:
> df =
data.frame(x=c(1,1,1,2,2,2),y=c('a','b','c','a','b','d'))
> df
   x y
1 1 a
2 1 b
3 1 c
4 2 a
5 2 b
6 2 d
> df[!table(df$y)[df$y] < 2,]
   x y
1 1 a
2 1 b
4 2 a
5 2 b

Note that this will only work properly if y is a factor or character
variable.  If y was numeric, you would need

df[!table(df$y)[as.character(df$y)]

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, mathijsdevaan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have two columns with data (both identifiers - it's an affiliation
list)
> and I would like to delete the rows in which the observations in the second
> column have a frequency < 5 in the entire second column. Example:
>
> 1     a
> 1     b
> 1     c
> 2     a
> 2     b
> 2     d
>
> Let's say, I would like to delete the rows in which the observation in
the
> second column has a frequency < 2 in the entire second column. This
would
> result in:
>
> 1     a
> 1     b
> 2     a
> 2     b
>
> How can I do this? Thanks in advance!
>
> Mathijs
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mathijsdevaan  wrote on 12/09/2010 04:21:54 PM:
> I have two columns with data (both identifiers - it's an affiliation 
list)
> and I would like to delete the rows in which the observations in the 
second
> column have a frequency < 5 in the entire second column. Example:
> 
> 1     a
> 1     b
> 1     c
> 2     a
> 2     b
> 2     d
> 
> Let's say, I would like to delete the rows in which the observation in 
the
> second column has a frequency < 2 in the entire second column. This 
would
> result in:
> 
> 1     a
> 1     b
> 2     a
> 2     b
> 
> How can I do this? Thanks in advance!
> 
It's not clear whether you want to delete rows where the value second 
column occurs less than 5 times or appears less than 2 times.  I'll assume 
the latter.

foo <- data.frame(k=rep(1:2, each=3), x=letters[c(1,2,3,1,2,4)])
bar <- subset(foo, x %in% names(table(foo$x))[table(foo$x)>=2])

No doubt others can write this more succinctly.

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Hi Phil,

That worked perfectly! Thanks

Mathijs
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